“Things Are Always What They Seem” *Touching*

Anabel Genao
Period 2

Cheyenne is caught up in a bad lifestyle because she just wants her mother’s love and attention. She can’t decide whether she should just voice her pain to her mother or just keep doing what she does forcing attention. It’s 2 a.m. and she’s just getting home and she’s in her bedroom contemplating to herself/ to audience.

Cheyenne: Things aren’t always what they seem. It’s 2 a.m. and I’m just coming home. My mother is in her room asleep. She thinks her perfect daughter has been in bed for hours. She doesn’t see my faults. I try so hard to get her attention but it never works. She never sees. It all happened when we moved and she got a new boyfriend. I got new friends. Bad friends, the type of friends my mother would never approve of if she saw. (Sigh) She never sees. My counselor at school is the only person I can really talk to. She tells me I just need to learn to communicate with my mother, that I need to talk to her, that I should tell her how I feel! That sounds so easy doesn’t it? It isn’t, I’m scared she isn’t going to love me anymore if she knows all of the things I’ve done. I wish I could just clean up my act but whenever I’m feeling lonely the only thing for me are my “friends.” Ha, if you can even call them friends. (Shakes head) I know they probably only hang with me because I’m their ride when they’re drunk. I just came back from my boyfriend’s house. How can I share things like this with my mother? She can either be really upset or she may not care at all. But I hide it from her, so I must hide it from her because she will care… (Movement is heard outside of room. Turns head.) It sounds like she’s awake. Maybe I should just go tell her everything… (Door opens, mother comes in.) Mom, we need to talk…